something change with smtp services?

[lynxtrax]

Hi,
over the past couple days, I've been having a heck of a time sending out emails with attachments. The error message is that the smtp server stopped responding. The attachments are less than 100k. has anything changed recently?

[sheila]

You also posted about this in another thread, and I did make a few remarks in response.
http://www.aota.net/forums/showthread.php?postid=133382#post133382

I think that the issue mentioned in the other thread is not what is causing your problems.

The error message received when someone tries to connect to and send a virus-laden email is the following:
554 message refused
Lynxtrax, if that is not the error message that you are receiving, then it is not the antivirus scanner that is preventing your emails from being accepted. Does your mail program allow logging of the SMTP session? That might be helpful for debugging purposes to find out what the problem could be so that it could be corrected. If possible, I would suggest turning on such SMTP session logging, or temporarily trying out a mail program that allows session logging so that you can narrow down what might be causing the issue.

[lynxtrax]

sorry about double posting - I responded in the other thread.